About the book: 2014 / Veronica Smyslovskaya looks great, she has a prestigious job and a long-term romance with a talented neurosurgeon. But her own life seems to her like a continuous series of losses, because in her youth she dreamed of another profession, of another love... Why do her dreams never come true? After moving from Moscow to St. Petersburg, new people appear in Veronica's life. Among them is Luka Ilyich Gromov. Fate was preparing a brilliant musical future for him. Why didn't it happen? Maybe there are simply people who are not created for happiness, and both of them, Veronica and Gromov, belong to their number? But life is always more complicated than our ideas about it. And a ray of hope can illuminate it at the most unexpected moment, when it seems that all the patterns have been revealed and there is nothing to count on…